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Blunt Force Truth

Self Defense Classes – w/ Kris "Tanto" Paronto

Blunt Force Truth

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News, Talk Radio

4.8960 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

On Today’s Episode –  We have returning guest Kris Paronto back on to talk about the current events in our Country and what he has been up to since we last talked to him. URL: https://kristantoparonto.com/  Kristian Joaquin "Tanto" Paronto (born 2 March 1971) is an American author, businessman, and former U.S. Army Ranger and CIA security contractor.[1] He is known for his actions while part of the CIA annex security team during the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Chris Stevens and the CIA compound in Benghazi. He is featured in the book 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi and is credited as a co-author, and is author of the self-help books The Patriot's Creed: Inspiration and Advice for Living a Heroic Life and The Ranger Way: Living the Code On and Off the Battlefield. Paronto was portrayed by actor Pablo Schreiber in the film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. Paronto was born in Alamosa, Colorado. His parents were educators and his mother taught his first-grade class. His father James Paronto was a football coach and athletic director.[2] Paronto played football, baseball and basketball. A football scholarship helped pay for his college degrees which include an associates, bachelor's and master's degrees.

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0:00.0

It's showtime.

0:02.0

People should not be afraid of their governments.

0:05.0

Government should be afraid of their people.

0:08.0

You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny.

0:14.0

Washington is fundamentally corrupt.

0:16.0

There are more words in the IRS code than there are in the Bible. Made in America Heard Around the World, you're listening to Blunt Forest Truth.

0:27.6

I'm your host Mark Young folks.

0:29.0

We've got a great show for you today.

0:30.7

Bringing back a old friend of the podcast that his name is

0:35.2

Tanto you might remember that I'm gonna tell you why you remember that Chris

0:40.3

Piranto and Chris was obviously I'm sure most of you know this this is one of the

0:47.2

original guys from the what it was it 13 hours of Bedazzie yeah yeah yeah, the movie still running around there still out still out there on all the all the platforms even the ones that don't like us. They're still playing it. Isn't that crazy?

1:01.0

It was a good movie and you know and it's Chris I got to tell you I was I was talking to my wife

1:06.7

about this show and we're talking about you do some classes and stuff and I was telling I'm like you know what he has a set of

1:17.3

experiences that very few people have ever had I was a cop I have some experiences but you you were on a literally fought for your life for 13 hours

1:32.5

you know I think, I don't think the firefight was any different than many that fought in the

1:40.4

global war on terror or even a state side if you're in a big, I mean, there's a lot of rounds that went back and forth, a lot of RPGs.

1:48.1

I think the biggest difference is nobody came.

1:51.1

That was the huge thing.

1:52.4

And that's exactly what I said to her.

1:54.0

I said he was in a 13-hour fight and he had no idea if or when it would ever end because

1:58.9

no one was showing up. The cavalry wasn't appearing.

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